Title 18-C, Title 18-C

1. Court determination of abuse of fiduciary's discretion. A court may not change a fiduciary's decision to exercise or not to exercise a discretionary power conferred by this Part unless it determines that the decision was an abuse of the fiduciary's discretion. A court may not …

After a decedent dies, in the case of an estate, or after an income interest in a trust ends, the provisions of this section apply. [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).] 1. Determination of net income and net principal. A fiduciary of an estate or…

1. Distribution based on fractional interest. Each beneficiary described in section 7-421, subsection 4 is entitled to receive a portion of the net income equal to the beneficiary's fractional interest in undistributed principal assets, using values as of the distribution date. I…

1. Beginning of income interest. An income beneficiary is entitled to net income from the date on which the income interest begins. An income interest begins on the date specified in the terms of the trust or, if no date is specified, on the date an asset becomes subject to a tru…

1. Application to principal. A trustee shall allocate an income receipt or disbursement other than one to which section 7‑421, subsection 1 applies to principal if its due date occurs before a decedent dies in the case of an estate or before an income interest begins in the case …

1. Undistributed income. As used in this section, "undistributed income" means net income received before the date on which an income interest ends. "Undistributed income" does not include an item of income or expense that is due or accrued or net income that has been added or is…

1. Entity. As used in this section, "entity" means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, regulated investment company, real estate investment trust, common trust fund or any other organization in which a trustee has an interest other than a trust or estate to whi…

A trustee shall allocate to income an amount received as a distribution of income from a trust or an estate in which the trust has an interest other than a purchased interest, and shall allocate to principal an amount received as a distribution of principal from such a trust or e…

1. Separate accounting for business or other activity. If a trustee who conducts a business or other activity determines that it is in the best interest of all the beneficiaries to account separately for the business or activity instead of accounting for it as part of the trust's…

A trustee shall allocate to principal: [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).] 1. Assets received. To the extent not allocated to income under this Part, assets received from a transferor during the transferor's lifetime, a decedent's estate, a trus…

To the extent that a trustee accounts for receipts from rental property pursuant to this section, the trustee shall allocate to income an amount received as rent of real or personal property, including an amount received for cancellation or renewal of a lease. An amount received …

1. Interest on obligation to pay money; allocate to income. An amount received as interest, whether determined at a fixed, variable or floating rate, on an obligation to pay money to the trustee, including an amount received as consideration for prepaying principal, must be alloc…

1. Trust, trustee as beneficiary; allocate to principal. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a trustee shall allocate to principal the proceeds of a life insurance policy or other contract in which the trust or its trustee is named as beneficiary, including a contract t…

If a trustee determines that an allocation between principal and income required by section 7‑449, 7‑450, 7‑451, 7‑452 or 7‑455 is insubstantial, the trustee may allocate the entire amount to principal unless one of the circumstances described in section 7‑404, subsection 3 appli…

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Payment" means a payment that a trustee may receive over a fixed number of years or during the life of one or more individuals because of services…

1. Liquidating asset. As used in this section, "liquidating asset" means an asset whose value will diminish or terminate because the asset is expected to produce receipts for a period of limited duration. "Liquidating asset" includes a leasehold, patent, copyright, royalty right …

1. Allocation of receipts. To the extent that a trustee accounts for receipts from an interest in minerals or other natural resources pursuant to this section, the trustee shall allocate them as follows: A. If received as nominal delay rental or nominal annual rent on a lease, a …

1. Allocation of net receipts. To the extent that a trustee accounts for receipts from the sale of timber and related products pursuant to this section, the trustee shall allocate the net receipts: A. To income to the extent the net receipts do not exceed the product of mean annu…

1. Income to obtain marital deduction. If a marital deduction is allowed for all or part of a trust whose assets consist substantially of property that does not provide the spouse with sufficient income from or use of the trust assets, and if the amounts that the trustee transfer…

1. Derivative. As used in this section, "derivative" means a contract or financial instrument or a combination of contracts and financial instruments that gives a trust the right or obligation to participate in some or all changes in the price of a tangible or intangible asset or…

1. Asset-backed security. As used in this section, "asset-backed security" means an asset whose value is based upon the right it gives the owner to receive distributions from the proceeds of financial assets that provide collateral for the security. "Asset-backed security" includ…

A trustee shall make the following disbursements from income to the extent that they are not disbursements to which section 7‑421, subsection 2, paragraph B or C applies: [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).] 1. Compensation. One-half of the regul…

1. Required disbursements. A trustee shall make the following disbursements from principal: A. The remaining 1/2 of the disbursements described in section 7‑461, subsections 1 and 2; [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).] B. All of the trustee's co…

1. Depreciation. As used in this section, "depreciation" means a reduction in value due to wear, tear, decay, corrosion or gradual obsolescence of a fixed asset having a useful life of more than one year. 2. Reasonable amount of net cash receipts. A trustee may transfer to princi…

1. Transfer to reimburse or provide reserve. If a trustee makes or expects to make a principal disbursement described in this section, the trustee may transfer an appropriate amount from income to principal in one or more accounting periods to reimburse principal or to provide a …

1. Tax based on receipts allocated to income. A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to income must be paid from income. 2. Tax based on receipts allocated to principal. A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to principal mu…

1. Adjustments to offset shifting of interests or benefits. A fiduciary may make adjustments between principal and income to offset the shifting of economic interests or tax benefits between income beneficiaries and remainder beneficiaries that arise from: A. Elections and decisi…

In applying and construing this Part, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

This Part applies to every trust or decedent's estate, including those in existence on September 1, 2019, beginning with the first fiscal year of the trust or decedent's estate that begins on or after September 1, 2019, except as otherwise expressly provided in the will or terms …

If a person entitled to or having an interest in property within the jurisdiction of the State has disappeared or absconded from the place within or outside the State where the person was last known to be, has no agent in the State and it is not known where the person is, or if a…

Upon receipt of a petition under section 8-101, the court may issue a warrant, which may run throughout the State, directed to the public administrator in the county where the property or some of it is situated, commanding the public administrator to take possession of the proper…

Upon the return of a warrant issued under section 8-102, the court shall issue a notice reciting the substance of the petition, warrant and return, which must be addressed to the absentee, to all persons who claim an interest in the absentee's property and to all whom it may conc…

The return day may not be less than 30 days nor more than 60 days after the date of the notice. The court shall order the notice to be published once in each of 3 successive weeks in one or more newspapers within the county in which the petition was filed under section 8-101 and …

The absentee or a person who claims an interest in any of the property may appear and show cause why the petition should not be granted. The court may, after hearing, dismiss the petition and order that the property in possession of the public administrator be returned to the per…

After approval of a bond under section 8-105, the court may order the public administrator to transfer and deliver to the receiver possession of the property under the warrant. The receiver shall file a schedule of the property received in the registry of probate.

In addition to property transferred to the receiver under section 8-106, the receiver shall take possession of any other property within the State that belongs to the absentee and demand and collect all debts due the absentee from any person in the State and hold the same as if i…

If an absentee has left no corporeal property within the State, but there are debts or obligations due or owing the absentee from persons in the State, a petition may be filed as provided in section 8-101, stating the nature and amount of the absentee's known debts and obligation…

The court may make orders for the care, custody, leasing and investing of all property and its proceeds in the possession of the receiver. If any of the property consists of live animals or is perishable or cannot be kept without great or disproportionate expense, the court may, …

The court may order the absentee's property or its proceeds acquired by mortgage, lease or sale to be applied in payment of expenses incurred or that may be incurred to support and maintain the absentee's spouse and dependent children and to discharge any debts and claims for spo…

The court may authorize the receiver appointed under section 8-108 to adjust by arbitration or compromise any demand in favor of or against the absentee's estate.

The receiver appointed under section 8-108 may receive compensation and disbursements ordered by the court, to be paid out of the absentee's property or proceeds. If, within 8 years after the date of the disappearance or absconding found by the court under section 8-105, the abse…

If at the expiration of 8 years after the date of the disappearance or absconding found by the court under section 8-105, the absentee's property has not been accounted for, delivered or paid over under section 8-112, the court shall order distribution of the remainder to the per…

Notwithstanding sections 8‑112 and 8‑113, if a receiver is not appointed within 7 years after the date of disappearance or absconding found by the court under section 8‑105, the time limited to accounting for, or fixed for distributing, the absentee's property or its proceeds, or…

Except as otherwise provided by law, and whenever the provisions of this Part are applicable, proceedings, judgment and execution on the bonds given to the State of Maine or the court by personal representatives, guardians, conservators, trustees, surviving partners, assignees of…

Whenever a surety on a bond has reason to believe that the trust officer has depleted or is wasting or mismanaging the estate, the surety may cite the trust officer before the court as provided in section 3-110. If upon hearing the court is satisfied that the estate held in trust…

It is lawful for any party of whom a bond, undertaking or other obligation is required to agree with the surety or sureties for the deposit of any or all money and assets for which the party and the surety or sureties are or may be held responsible with a national bank, savings b…